Monday, February 18, 2013

Of all the Star Wars landscapes Hoth was one of my favorites, maybe it’s because I’m from Minnesota? I remember my best friend and I used to go out after a snow storm and build the rebel base and reenact scenes from the movie. The best was one week we got about 3 feet of snow, my dad had just snow plowed and it made the perfect, sharp-edged wall. This enabled us to create rooms and corridors and the landing bay for all the ships. Of course the most fun was the imperial assault!

This is similar to the AT-AT or Imperial Walker I had as a kid and you'll see the Scout Walker as well. We used to have fun having Luke Skywalker crawl up the walker and throw a grenade in it!

I’ve had an affinity for Star Wars for most of my life. As geeky as this may sound it true! I was born in the seventies and grew up in the eighties. I remember when I was about 5 years old my sister and her friends took me to the theater to see Star Wars, we waiting in line and to our disappointment that showing was sold out! Instead we had to see International Velvet, I’ll never forget out sad I was and that other movie not something a kid would enjoy. Eventually my parents took me to see Star Wars and I was hooked, soon enough I was collecting Star Wars toys, trading cards and anything else I could get my mom to buy for me. A few years later, when I was a bit older, my mom took me and my friends to see Empire Strikes Back for my birthday. What a movie that was! I remember being riveted to my seat with suspense. Even at a young age I could see how the movie had evolved and my imagination starting going wild with the infinite possibilities in the universe around us.

Now that I’m a grown up, I’ve parted with most of my Star Wars toys. I was amazed how much I was able to make by selling them on eBay. Whoever would have thought the toys would be worth so much today? One toy I never got rid of was my Millennium Falcon, now it is my 5 year old nephew’s favorite toys. This blog is a celebration of Star Wars and Star Wars Toys, memorabilia and other cool stuff.